The Unity Kolam ceremony

At the initiative of Auroville International, the bonfire event of February 28th witnessed an unusual spectacle. When the bonfire was over, the sounds of gongs announced a special event. White-dressed children walking in a beeline brought candles to the urn in the amphitheatre, then walked down to the base of the urn to deposit a handful of earth in a container placed in the middle of the Auroville symbol.

It is the result of our aspiration to create an event that will reignite and rekindle in our hearts a remembering, and renewal of our true aim in Auroville to unite the earth for humanity as a whole, wrote Auroville International in the News and Notes to explain the event. Over the last few months, people from around the world  friends and supporters of Auroville  have been responding to a call to send samples of earth. Over 120 samples from all over the planet have been collected from places including Mt Kailash, Easter Islands , City of Akhentaten and from land in the Netherlands that once was below the sea! The places where samples have been collected are highlighted  often with a photo and description  on a special website created to profile this event: http://www.humanunity.info/.

Early morning of the Golden Day, February 29th, the day commemorating the descent of the supramental consciousness, the soils were combined as a symbolic gesture of a unified earth. The samples were e packed into Auroville-made gift cards and distributed as an out-reaching gesture to the world which has supported and nurtured the vision of Auroville since it began 40 years ago.